Trivia / Resident Evil (Remake)

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite receiving universal acclaim from critics for being one of the scariest and most visually stunning entries in the series, the original Nintendo GameCube version of the game sold worse than what Capcom had anticipated, leading to the switch towards more actionized horror with the fourth entry. Not that this change was a bad thing, as it changed the entire industry thereafter.
• Fake American: Julia Voth, Jill's character model, is Canadian.
• Throw It In!: Real Survival mode. By default, all item boxes are linked so you can get your items anywhere and there's auto aim, although this was not present in the North American version of the original game. According to the description of Real Survival, the prototype of the original game had it where the item boxes weren't linked at all. The game mode emulates this and forces the manual aim for the Challenge Gamer.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early screenshots showed that Chris and Jill were at one point going to be able to fight barehanded, with Chris using punches and Jill using kicks, but for whatever reason the ability was left out of the final version.
  • There's gameplay footage of Chris using some kind of laser beam weapon that didn't make the final cut.
  • In the Gamecube instruction manual, there is an early screenshot of the first floor mansion map screen with the east part of the mansion mostly explored and the west barely touched. In the final game, you are supposed to explore a section of the west area first.